Chapter Summaries

Hao Ren and the others fought the resilient Sacred Flame Incarnation in the ruined hall, while Lily tried to use water for a powerful attack. After she accidentally drank strong liquor instead, she coughed out a blast that pierced through the mountain and into the sky.

• Lily sensed the Sacred Flame Incarnation appearing near the entrance and struck it with her plasma air blades before it could launch a sneak attack.
• Vivian hit the creature with a Lightning Storm, but it survived, weakened, and re-formed from the molten metal.
• Hao Ren ordered everyone to focus their attacks and wear down the Sacred Flame Incarnation as the knights and apprentices joined the fight.
• Lily asked the others for water, and Becky threw her a canteen without realizing it contained liquor.
• Lily choked on the liquor and unleashed a blast that pierced through the hall, the mountain, and the sky, leaving her nauseated.

Hao Ren and his companions defeated the Sacred Flame Incarnation, which transformed into an unconscious silver-haired elf woman. They explored the devastated area behind the Second Gate and discovered unfamiliar divine runes that Hao Ren recognized from the traitors’ armor at Sulun's Gate.

• Lily's Dog Cannon blasted the Sacred Flame Incarnation, but it re-formed before its energy finally ran out.
• The weakened Sacred Flame Incarnation transformed into an unconscious elf woman, whom Hao Ren restrained and placed under medical care.
• Hao Ren, Vivian, Becky, Haimo, and Lily passed through the Second Gate and found a hall devastated by magical energy and heat.
• Hao Ren found unfamiliar runes carved into the intact walls and recognized them from the traitors’ vehicle armor at Sulun's Gate.

Hao Ren and his companions uncovered evidence that Horleta’s ancient Magic Emperors had used God-slayer runes in their experiments, but the scale of the technology and the civilization’s motives remained unexplained. As they searched the ruined laboratory for the source of its divine power, the awakened elf identified herself as Lorisa.

• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily examined the runes and debated how the Magic Emperors could have obtained such advanced God-slayer technology while remaining devoted to the Goddess.
• Hao Ren and the Data Terminal concluded that an explosion in the central laboratory had destroyed the facility and likely caused the Sacred Flame Incarnation’s rampage, while the survivors sealed the base and continued their research elsewhere.
• Hao Ren found an elven-style bracelet among the wreckage and another on the unconscious elf, linking her to the laboratory’s central test site.
• Vivian questioned why time had stopped in the ruin, and Hao Ren and the Data Terminal proposed that the runes or the explosion had distorted spacetime.
• Hao Ren ordered everyone to search the central laboratory for the divine-power source used to create the first divine cells.
• A knight reported that the Sacred Flame Incarnation had awakened and said her name was Lorisa.

Hao Ren and his companions discovered that the elf woman from the ancient ruin was Lorisa, the Elf Queen sealed for ten thousand years. After learning that the conspiracy she had tried to stop had succeeded and the world had changed, Lorisa accepted that the old era was gone.

• A knight identified the awakened elf as Lorisa, prompting Hao Ren and the others to investigate.
• Lorisa insisted she was Lorisa, resisted the restraints, and became confused as her sealed memories returned.
• Lorisa remembered that the divine oracle and divine power were fake and urgently warned that someone was stealing the Goddess's authority by fusing oracle cells with mortals.
• Hao Ren and Becky told Lorisa that ten thousand years had passed and explained the God-slaying War and the changes to Horleta.
• Lorisa doubted their account until Hao Ren offered to show her the transformed world, but she said she had expected the oracle to be false and had not expected matters to end so badly.

Hao Ren’s group discovered a True Word Stone Slab in the ruins and concluded that it had caused the laboratory’s time-stop, while the oracle it conveyed may have been falsified. They returned to Horleta’s royal capital with Lorisa, where Hao Ren questioned whether she truly was the Elf Queen from ten thousand years ago.

• Lily dug a True Word Stone Slab out from beneath the laboratory wreckage, and Hao Ren identified it as a record of the Creation Goddess’s words.
• Hao Ren determined that the slab had caused the ruins’ time-stop but that its oracle might have been altered or misinterpreted.
• Vivian pointed out that the slab was a suspicious way for the Creation Goddess to communicate with mortals, and Hao Ren stored it for later study.
• Hao Ren’s group left the ruins with Lorisa and traveled to the royal capital after sending their findings to the city.
• Lorisa saw the modern capital and murmured about the ten thousand years that had passed.
• Hao Ren asked Lorisa whether she really was Lorisa, the Elf Queen.

Hao Ren questioned Lorisa’s identity, and she revealed that she was a clone of the Elf Magic Emperor with only part of the original’s memories. She recounted how the Magic Emperors believed the Creation Goddess had instructed them to study the creation of life, but a dark shadow hidden in the divine revelation drove her mind and the experiment into chaos.

• Hao Ren asked Lorisa whether she was truly the Elf Queen and connected her to the failed Life Tree Plan.
• Lorisa explained that she was a clone of the Magic Emperor Lorisa, carrying some of the original’s memories and personality but knowing nothing about events after the laboratory accident.
• Lorisa said the Magic Emperors had created her because ordinary people could not withstand divine grace, and that she had been unable to endure the deeper information in the revelation.
• Lorisa told Hao Ren that the four Magic Emperors had believed the Creation Goddess’s revelation that mortals were ready to learn the secrets of creating life.
• Lorisa recalled finding a mad, dark shadow hidden within the Goddess’s power, then losing contact with the outside world as she fought its restraint and caused the energy to run wild.

Lorisa explained how the Horleta Magic Emperors were deceived into experimenting with the True Word Stone Slab and how she became its first successful vessel. She revealed that the power she encountered was a dark consciousness impersonating the Creation Goddess, leaving Hao Ren and his companions with proof that the ancient divine oracle had been a fraud.

• Lorisa reconstructed the history of the experiment from her inherited memories and the years she had personally lived as the Elf Queen’s shadow.
• She explained that the Creation Goddess had supposedly promised Horleta’s Magic Emperors the secret of life, after which Drian obtained the True Word Stone Slab and organized a joint research effort.
• The Magic Emperors discovered that mortals could not withstand the slab’s power, so they created Lorisa as a vessel rather than risking themselves.
• Lorisa described the plan to combine artificial divine cells with power transformed from the slab, and said she had lost herself during the implantation experiment.
• Lorisa demonstrated that her body could transform divine power into sacred flame and told Hao Ren and Vivian that the consciousness she encountered was dark, evil, and not the true Goddess.

Hao Ren and his companions exposed the false oracle that had led Lorisa’s ancient Magic Empire into creating the Demon Hunters, then helped Lorisa prepare to meet King Moron. After the king accepted that she was a clone, Ofra confronted Lorisa about creating the Ancient Species and left without pursuing her accusation.

• Hao Ren, Vivian, and Lily concluded that the oracle Lorisa had received was fake and questioned who had used it to manipulate the Magic Empire.
• Lorisa explained that the oracle had also given her the runes used in the central laboratory, and Hao Ren recognized them as God-slaying runes.
• Hao Ren advised Lorisa to present herself to King Moron as an ordinary elf clone, and she agreed to follow his plan.
• Hao Ren and the others explained Lorisa’s circumstances to King Moron and his advisers, easing the king’s wariness.
• Ofra stayed behind after the meeting, asked Lorisa about creating the Ancient Species, then left after saying she was glad to have met her race’s creators.

After returning to Becky’s manor, Hao Ren asked Lorisa to help investigate how divine power transformed mortal cells, and she agreed to join him despite her suspicions. Three days later, the Homecoming Group prepared to depart for the Dream Plane, and light gates opened for the invited travelers.

• Hao Ren explained that Lorisa was an ideal sample for studying the transformation between mortal cells and divine power, and she agreed to cooperate and travel with him.
• Hao Ren arranged for Lorisa to stay at Becky’s manor while he prepared the Homecoming Group’s return to Earth.
• Three days later, Bai Huo, Hassu, and other Demon Hunters waited at the Arctic fortress as the departure time arrived.
• Heiserana, Jean Lucas, Hesperis, and other supernatural leaders gathered at the Athens Sanctuary, while Casa Eben and Euen Eben waited in their werewolf clan’s realm.
• Light gates opened before the invited travelers gathered across the world.

Hao Ren and Raven 12345 opened teleportation gates around Earth to gather the chosen supernatural representatives for a journey beyond the world. The travelers arrived at Kuiper Station, where Hao Ren welcomed them and prepared to lead them aboard.

• Light gates appeared in sanctuaries and secluded places worldwide, and representatives including Hassu, Jean Lucas, Heiserana, and Katerina set out through them.
• Hao Ren and Raven 12345 confirmed that the travelers had been gathered safely and discussed bringing a perfect specimen and the Dream Plane's Ancient Species for testing.
• Bai Huo arrived at a futuristic silver-white station and followed a guiding beam through the hall.
• The chosen representatives gathered tensely at Kuiper Station, keeping their distance from rival groups, especially the Demon Hunters.
• Hao Ren arrived with Lady Vivian, Lily, Izax, and Erem Royal Guards, welcomed everyone to Kuiper Station, and offered to take them aboard.

Hao Ren led the chosen otherworldly beings through an imperial space station, explaining that their homeland lay in the Dream Plane and that their journey would begin with a spaceship. The group was overwhelmed by the vast, unfamiliar world beyond Earth as they approached their first departure point.

• Hao Ren arrived with Erem Royal Guards, unsettling the chosen ones and establishing control over the group before their journey home.
• Hao Ren explained that the Day of Return prophecy had been false, but the Supernatural Race did have a distant homeland beyond Earth and their universe.
• Hao Ren told the group that their homeland was the Dream Plane and that they would travel by spaceship from the Kuiper Belt to a gate deep in the universe.
• The chosen ones crossed a transparent bridge and saw the space station’s immense interior, starry surroundings, and a formation of Hokel Mercenaries heading to a warship.
• Hao Ren explained that the mercenaries had been hired for a war in the Kansala-Ikan Nebula, while the Sirens took photos of the spectacle.

Hao Ren took a hundred Dream Plane survivors aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform on their first journey back to their homeland, guiding them through the Rift Nebula toward the Universe Gate. After revealing Purgatory and Yggdrasil to the passengers, he prepared the ship to enter the Dream Plane and ordered the drone swarm to monitor its cosmic parameters.

• Hao Ren led the Chosen Ones aboard the Giant Turtle Rock Platform and departed Kuiper Station under the temporary flight name “Sunset Homecoming Group.”
• Adeni surveyed the uneasy mix of supernatural races and Demon Hunters aboard the ship as they traveled through warped space.
• The spacecraft exited hyperspace, revealing the Rift Nebula, the Universe Gate, Purgatory, and Yggdrasil to the astonished passengers.
• Hao Ren explained that Purgatory and Yggdrasil lay beside the gate and urged the passengers to consult their travel dossiers.
• Hao Ren ordered the drone swarm to monitor the Dream Plane as the Giant Turtle Rock Platform entered the Universe Gate.

Hao Ren brought the one hundred chosen candidates through the Universe Gate into the Dream Plane, where the immense information impact from their ancestral ties remained within safe limits. The group began its homecoming tour at Horleta, as the first divine power fluctuation was detected.

• Jean Lucas and the other passengers experienced the dazzling journey through the Rift Nebula and the crossing of the Wall of Reality.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform emerged safely at the Koro Monitoring Station, where Hao Ren reviewed data showing that the passengers’ causal entanglement had caused a major but manageable information fluctuation.
• Hao Ren told the passengers that the Dream Plane was a separate universe and outlined their planned visits to Horleta, the lost planetary ruins, and the Siren homeland of Io.
• The Giant Turtle Rock Platform traveled to Horleta, where Jean Lucas recognized the planet as his people’s homeland and Marshal Ofra, Becky, and the others watched the ship arrive.
• Hao Ren received a report that the Bloodkin, Werewolf, and Thunder Giant bloodlines had reconnected with Horleta’s ecosystem and that the first divine power fluctuation had been detected.

Hao Ren brought the Earth Others to Horleta, where they met the kingdom’s welcoming party and discovered a surviving Eben Werewolf. The reunion eased the visitors’ alienation, while the drone swarm continued investigating divine power echoes across space.

• The drone swarm detected a divine power fluctuation and other signals, and Hao Ren ordered it to investigate significant sources and map every reacting region.
• Giant Turtle Rock Platform landed in Horleta, and Hao Ren led the Earth Others to meet Marshal Ofra and the welcoming party.
• Elson Eben recognized Casa Eben and Ewan Eben as descendants of the Eben family and thanked Hao Ren for bringing them together.
• Hao Ren explained that Elson was the last surviving Eben Werewolf in Horleta, and Casa reassured him that the family still existed on Earth.
• The Earth Others discussed finding their ancestral families and lost traditions, while the Sirens continued taking photographs.

Hao Ren brought Earth’s alien races to Horleta to experience the Dream Plane’s culture and legacy, and the Rune Dwarves recovered a copy of their ancestral writing. As the visit continued, growing divine power fluctuations revealed that a hidden network was emerging across the Dream Plane.

• Hao Ren watched Horleta’s guides introduce the Earth visitors to the Bloodkin’s myths and the Werewolves’ history and traditions.
• The Rune Dwarves discovered 122 stone tablets bearing their ancestors’ writing in the Horleta Royal Family’s vault and wept over the recovery of their lost legacy.
• Hesperis explained to Hao Ren that the Rune Dwarves had preserved fragments of their writing by carving them into their bodies after their memories faded on Earth.
• The Rune Dwarves received permission to make rubbings of the tablets, while Hesperis explained that other Earth races had lacked the strength to focus on cultural legacy.
• The Data Terminal told Hao Ren that the visit’s greatest significance lay elsewhere, as drone swarms detected rising divine power fluctuations and a hidden network emerging across the Dream Plane.

Hao Ren oversaw the Earth Others’ first day of sightseeing in Horleta, where the royal family prepared an elaborate welcome and the visitors explored the city. The group settled into noble estates for the night, where Katerina discussed getting internet access for the Sirens and Bai Huo discovered Hao Ren’s lone Wi-Fi hotspot.

• Ofra explained that Horleta’s royal family had prepared museums, galleries, and noble estates for the Earth Others to demonstrate the kingdom’s dignity and preserve its influence.
• Hao Ren wandered through the city as the Earth Others split into groups to explore, study local culture, and buy books, magical items, and souvenirs.
• Katerina and the Sirens toured the commercial district, taking photographs and buying local goods and snacks before the group headed to its assigned lodgings.
• At Becky’s estate, Katerina asked Hao Ren how the Sirens could charge their devices, then described her plan to bring mobile service to Deep Sea City.
• Hao Ren handed the Sirens’ batteries to Vivian to charge, and Bai Huo discovered the estate’s Wi-Fi and began playing online games during Lorisa’s lesson.
• Hassu took Bai Huo’s phone and told her not to play games during class.

Hao Ren sent Earth Otherworlders to visit ecological planet ruins while the Crystal Core Research Station monitored a divine-power network reacting to their return to the Dream Plane. The network’s purpose remained unclear, and Hao Ren and the Guardian Giants waited for more data to reveal its pattern.

• Hao Ren’s group sent the Earth Otherworlders from Tanagrus in escorted shuttles to visit selected planetary ruins.
• The Crystal Core Research Station reported that divine-power fluctuations intensified when the visitors contacted ecosystems and weakened when they left or entered warped space.
• Hao Ren concluded that the Creation Goddess had left a contingency for the descendants of the exiles and planned to gather more readings by sending them to different planets.
• Hao Ren summoned Muru, Siv, and Lemendusa to examine the network’s holographic map.
• Lemendusa said the network looked familiar and agreed to observe it as more of its signals appeared.

Hao Ren monitored a universe-wide network of divine-power fluctuations triggered when teams visited worlds connected to civilizations destroyed by the Firstborn. He discovered that the network’s contact points were deliberately selected stars, but its purpose and message remained undeciphered.

• Expedition Team One landed on Tanagrus, where the Ankatro Family saw their ancestors’ homeland and heard about its Tanan ruins and Zhuom settlers.
• The second shuttle brought its team to PT-05, the poisoned homeworld of the Shadow Demons, while monitoring stations recorded divine-power fluctuations.
• The third team reached frozen Galenhod, and its visit triggered further fluctuations as the guide described the buried civilization and its library.
• Hao Ren and the Guardians observed that contact with every testing point caused faster-than-light divine-power responses, except in the Lord of Madness’s prison zone.
• Hao Ren revealed that probes had found stars at every fluctuation point and concluded that the Creation Goddess had deliberately built the network.
• Izax asked whether the network’s information could be deciphered, but Hao Ren warned that its divine nature and the risk of provoking it made analysis difficult.

Hao Ren and the others examined the mysterious divine-power network, which had activated when many descendants of exiles returned to the Dream Plane. Lemendusa recognized its design from the Creation Goddess’s secret facilities and recalled that she had once asked whether a universe beginning anew should have a god.

• Hao Ren explained that the network needed many descendants of exiles to return, spanned the Dream Plane, processed vast amounts of information, and placed its nodes far from life.
• Hao Ren suspected the Creation Goddess had put the network in the Wastelands because its operation could harm life or attract dangerous entities, and the others agreed to remain cautious.
• Lemendusa recognized the network’s structure from a confidential design facility in the Creation Goddess’s palace.
• Lemendusa recalled that the Creation Goddess had designed secret projects, including the Creation Engine, with the help of soulless workers and without revealing their purposes to most guardians.
• Lemendusa remembered the Creation Goddess asking whether a new world should have a god if the universe were reduced to nothing and began again.

After discussing what the Creation Goddess may have been unable to let go of, Hao Ren’s group continued their journey through the Dream Plane’s ruins. The ship reached its final destination, Io, the Sirens’ homeland, as the travelers prepared to arrive.

• Hao Ren concluded that the Creation Goddess’s divine-power oscillation network was likely prepared to address her death and protect what she cared about most.
• The Chosen spent three days witnessing ruined worlds and the destruction left by the Firstborn catastrophe.
• A Vampire noble reflected to Hesperis on how the journey had humbled him, while Heiserana joked about asking Hao Ren for a spaceship.
• Jean Lucas noticed that Katerina and the other Sirens had grown solemn as the ship entered warp travel.
• Bai Huo told the group that the ship’s next and final stop was Io, the Sirens’ homeland, as the planet came into view.